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If Discord were more proactive in policing its' CDN, there wouldn't BE an issue with users in the first place!
The users having poor internet safety are a symptom, not the cause! Proper internet safety is like wearing PPE in a COVID ward. It's prevention, not cure.
Malware is a pandemic of a different nature, but roughly the same treatment. You have to trace the pandemic to the source and treat it there. And the source is the Discord CDN.
That literally makes no sense. Poor internet safety causes viruses to spread and infect.
It isn't a symptom of the viruses spreading.
That's like saying an employee who opens a phishing email is a symptom of a network infection, not the cause.
Yes, and I later edited my post to reflect what I was trying to say better. My apologies for being confusing.
Proper internet safety is like wearing Personal Protective Equipment in a COVID ward. It's prevention, not cure.
You can prevent catching most malware by practicing proper internet safety, but that won't stop every piece of it from getting through. To truly stop it, you've got to treat the source.
Malware is a pandemic of a different nature, but roughly the same treatment. To cure a pandemic, you have to trace the pandemic to the source and treat it there. And the source of this pandemic is the Discord CDN.
Yeah, no.
Discord isn't the 'source' anymore than Google(who host a lot of these services) is the 'source'.
Discord is a tool, just like email was(and still is according to your article). It isn't a 'source'.
To say that Discord is the source of a malware 'pandemic' is ignorant at best and naive at worst.
According to my articles, the content distribution network is the source. Like a pool of water infected with malaria which mosquitoes then spread.
How do you treat malaria? By getting rid of the mosquitoes.
No, their CDN is a tool used by malicious actors.
That same article even says those same actors use and have more success through email.
That article said those emails use malware stored in the Discord CDN. The emails and links are a transmission vector. Treat the CDN, eliminate the malware inside it, and you eliminate those evil emails.
Removing/blocking access to the CDN would do this. It's a solution.
The Discord CDN is like a standing-water, malaria-infected pool from which mosquitoes receive the disease.
The emails and links are a transmission vector, like mosquitoes they spread the infection from the source pool.
The users that receive the infection are victims. They did not ask to get bitten.
The solution is to cleanse or drain the pool, or block off access to get rid of the infection. The pool is the Discord CDN. Therefore the logical solution is to block off access to the CDN.
You actually made me read the article that somehow has sprawled all running around in circles.
So:
The article found 17.000 malicious URLs within Discord CDNs... That sure seems a lot.
Until one goes to look how many people uses Discord.
There were 300 million registered users in 2019. 150 million monthly active users in 2021.
That means there's a malicious link for every 0.0001 Discord users.
Hard to call that a pandemic and to request someone to fully block a service for.
Those links are merely transmission vectors, vectors that can be used multiple times.
For comparison, how many humans does the average mosquito bite? Mosquitoes are also transmission vectors.
On average, a mosquito bites one person before it’s swatted. 😁
If you wish to discussion transmission vectors why are you discounting things greater than discord , such as phishing emails or greater social media sites such as FB, Twitter, instagram, WhatsApp, etc..
Because it's inconvenient to this narrative.
Look Discord is actually pretty safe, It's no more or less dangerous than the internet as a whole.
Add to that the fact that OFFICIAL servers for devs, studios, publishers, etc are by nature safer than others due to legal responsibility and there's no reason for steam to do anything about it. I mean if you get a virus or malware from a devs endorsed or unofficial server.. then guess what... you can sue that dev/pub for damages...and in most cases win.
The caveat here however is rthe longstanding truth that the problem here is usually the component seated in the chair.
The oldest bit of internet secyurity advice is not to download strange files from dubious sources.
And to this day people still gotta learn that the hardway.
The same people falling prey to malware on discord are the same people whould have been downloading "HallieberryNudeScreensaver.exe" from some shady geocities website back in the day. WIth pretty much the same results.
Simple truth. When you use discord... and you download a file. Pass it through your av program or Virustotal before you run it.
Company that sells fix for X ppublishes article about the dangers of x.
COmpany that sells Y publishes stdy touting the many, many benefits of Y
Neither case has to involve any falsification of the data, but they can do a lot to embelish the risks/benefits.